SickOfWaiting

So long as its beating house price inflation! (and covering the rent)

That's like Celtic or Rangers coming 2nd and being chuffed about it

As a contractor the first thing we do when on a new job is speak to the lads about day rates, then whine about them barely going up. Only reason I go to work is for money, so may as well find out where the bigger bucks are.

The way i see it, our glorious leaders have always been an exceptionally corrupt pieces of s###. However ,when the bank bailouts happened, and the middle/upper classes were gifted hundreds of billions to bail out their epic failings they stopped trying to hide their corruption and no longer cared that we knew they're thieving bstrds. Just look at Hancock, Kwasi and the gang wanting 10k or more per day to sell out the country, in a civilised society, they'd be imprisoned for treason, nowadays it barely last 2 days in the news.

Ive been proven right about everything, doesn't mean i'm ever going to be PM. And id be a far better PM than that commie middle class fool who has never done an honest days work in his life.

He lost 2 elections.

In southern England house prices lost most their value within 12/18 months, and stayed lower until 1996 ish. The North/SE England price differential was far higher back then than what it is now, insane house prices was only something those in the south boasted about. One major difference to now was builders literally walked away from sites, leaving the housing estates unfinished from 1990 to the mid to late 90s, nowadays the builders put houses up far slower so this won't happen in 2023/24/25.

Who do you mean by core vote? As if its the working class, this ilk despise Labour, they've lost this lot. If its the benefit class, single mothers, the woke middle class Londoners and immigrants then they're about to find out the cupboard really is bare this time, and the printing press which has sustained them since 2008 is out of ink.

That would mean they've been planning this for 13 years. Thing is, Labour wanted the Tories to spend even more during lockdown, and it is ultimately that helicopter money which has seen inflation shoot up. Anyway they're 2 cheek of the same arse, its not as if the plebs are allowed to vote for actual change.

If you go on Indeed you'll see plasterer days rates of less than £200 a day. My friends are all tradesman of varying degrees and none of them are on £400 a day. £150-£200 is the norm. This is in southern England. If only i wasnt so lazy i'd go back to the building game, but its too much like hard work.

Where do you live, in a million pound house in SW1? If you called a 1 man band, you'd get rates as you expected, or for less. If you called a company then the owner wants his cut and will just give any price if he's busy.

Workers wages at the BoE's are inflation protected, as are their pensions, so they don't really care.

The only reason they were so low is because the BoE printed money to buy our own debt. That game is well and truly over.

It already has been a gradual decline over the last 16 months, hence why he has posted this topic. Nothing is selling from what i'm seeing, and prices are f'en insane in the south, and in decent parts of the north.

Theyve good fillet steak, or is it Lidl, they're like Ant and Dec in that i never know which one is which. (unless i read the sign)